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Tag Archives: Lewis Chessmen
Chess a genteel game? … full-contact body and mind
Not all chess matches have had a happy, sportsmanlike end.Does chess encourage violence or discourage it? It may not be a leisure activity of refinement and erudition that many outsiders hold the image of it to be. In fact the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Bobby Fischer, Chess, Chess boxing, Edward Lasker, Fernando Pessoa, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Judith Polgar, Lewis Chessmen, Ralph Charell, Simon Armitage, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Rendall, Vladimir Nabokov
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Finding bobby fisher: Back to Iceland?
Maybe the celebrated American chess champion knew something, a secret on the game he never disclosed. On the isle of Lewis on the outer fringe of the Northern Hebrides, the existence of giant chessmen does not go unnoticed. Here, as … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Bobby Fischer, Danny Yee, David H. Caldwell, Dylan Loeb McClain, Harry Potter, Irving Finkel, Irving Finkel Lewis Chessmen, Jan Newton, Jeremy Silman, Lewis Chessmen, Maev Kennedy, Marcel Duchamp, Reuben Fine, Richard Reti, Rudolf Spielman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Taylor Edgar, Tim Cornwell, Vladimir Nabokov
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